Axe Forging & Throwing Workshop

Reserve a ticket for this workshop. $50 Non-Refundable Deposit,  balance due day of class.

All classes are held at:
The Drunken Smithy
61 West Front Street, Suite C
Palmyra, PA 17078

Instructors: Eitri Smith and Greg Ramsey

Participants will forge an axe, starting with a steel blank or hammer head and leaving with a finished, heat-treated, sharpened masterpiece.  Each workshop is a one-time, intensive, four-hour course.  All tools, raw materials, gloves, safety glasses, and ear plugs will be provided. All experience levels welcome–instructors will help as much or as little as you’d like.  Participants must wear long pants, closed-toe shoes or boots, and have long hair tied back.  All workshops include a meal (sausages roasted over the forges, fruit, snacks, sodas) and time at the end to throw axes at the Drunken Smithy throwing lane.

• Fees: Forging workshops – $150 to $300 depending on project selected
  • $150 for single bit all steel axe
  • $200 for 2-bit all steel axe
  • $250 – $300 for the wooden handle Viking axe

Cost to reserve is $50 with an additional $100 to $250 due day of class (must be paid onsite)

COVID-19: We are limiting class size to 6 people, encouraging social distancing, and requiring face masks to be worn for the entire workshop.  If you are feeling sick the day of your workshop, please contact us to reschedule. 

Children under 18 are welcome to attend our workshops, but must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.  Both child and adult must purchase a ticket, even if they are only going to make 1 project.  Children should be tall enough to work comfortably at the anvil and strong enough to use a hammer for an extended time period.

Have a gift certificate?  Add the ticket(s) to your cart, then type the Voucher Code from the bottom right corner of your gift certificate in the box that says “Apply Coupon”.  Proceed to Checkout and your tickets will be emailed to you.  If you have a balance remaining on your gift certificate, you can use it in person to pay the rest of your workshop fee.

For further information contact forge@drunkensmithy.com